by Caroline | Jan 28, 2016 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management, Training
Austin has a unique culture. On the one hand, we live in a world where trigger warnings and micro- aggressions are a huge issue for people, and many Austinites take fair and compassionate treatment for people of all colors, creeds, sexual preferences and gender...
by Caroline | Dec 30, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Holiday Wishes!!, HRCompliance, HRIS, HRSafety, Labor Law, Management, People Evaluation, rewards, teamwork
2015 was, in a lot of ways, a big year of shifting. With a crazy battle for talent and everybody trying to figure out how to create a winning culture, there were many organizations wrestling to figure out how to flatten their hierarchies and what benefits would really...
by Caroline | Dec 16, 2015 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Recruiting
Not that you need reminding, but there are just two more weeks until we celebrate the end of 2015 and usher in a new year. Not to be downer but…new rules are about to kick in across the country in terms of 2016 employment law changes. I am sure most organizations are...
by Caroline | Oct 7, 2015 | HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
I read a statistic recently that 77 percent of HR professionals say their departments have gone paperless. And I started thinking about the other 23 percent, having people come in and get a piece of paper and fill out all the boxes—oops, mistake? Scratch it out, or,...
by Caroline | Sep 30, 2015 | HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management
So here’s the fun thing about the fourth quarter: You’ve only got so much time to get stuff done before the holidays kick in, making everything merry…and complicated. One of those things you really need to make sure gets done is planning for your Affordable Care Act...
by Caroline | Aug 12, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Labor Law, Management
I was thinking about writing a blog on the Department of Labor’s overtime proposal which would bump the salary of employees who were not eligible for overtime from $23,660 to $50,440. That, I thought, was a huge leap and probably a proposal that needed to be tempered....
